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Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett: How to Understand Emotions
Huberman Lab
The Brain as a Guessing Machine and its Basis on Past Experience
"The brain is like a guessing machine," says the speaker. It's constantly making guesses based on past experience to determine how to react to different stimuli. Whether it's a car door slamming, thunder, a car backfiring, or a gunshot, the brain has to quickly decide what action to take. This decision-making process is not an intellectual guess, but rather a motor plan that changes the body's internal state to support physical movements. The brain uses past experiences to create these plans by reinstating bits and pieces of similar signals. So, while we may not perceive it as remembering, the brain is actually reenacting past experiences to navigate the present.
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